Plow.



H. MOORE.

PLOW.

APPLICATION FILED umso, 1909.

-948,092; Patented De0.14,19o9.

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Application filed April 30, 1909. Serial No. 493,153.

To allwhom tt may concern: Be it known that I, HENRY MooRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plows, of which the following is a specification.

`removed from the exposed surface of the It has long been recognized that the present` usual method of tilling the ground is not of a character to produce the best crop results and this is especially true where the `total rain fall is not much more than sufficient, even if .it is all retained, to supply the plant life.

The object of my present invention is to provide a mechanism by means of which there may be produced, at any desired depth, preferably greater than the ordinary plowing depth, a stratum of earth which has been broken up; a second stratum which has been ground, broken up, turned, and deposited upon the first stratum, and compacted; and

a third stratum which has been withdrawn from a point below the exposed surface of the ground and turned and deposited on top of the other two strata, thus producing a condition of soil wherein the seed may be planted in a compacted stratum of comparatively line earth having no detrimental voids and having vbelowit a well broken up.

stratum which will permit ready drainage but, at the same time, will permit the capillary delivery of'water to the crop roots from the undisturbed groundbeneath.

The accompanying drawings illustrate an embodiment of my invention:

Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 a vertical section ofground treated with my machine. A

In the drawings, -10 indicates a suitable frame which is supported at its'rear end by two wheels 11 and 12 and at its front end by a suitable steering or caster wheel 13.

Suitably mounted in frame 10 are two plows 14 and 15, the plow `15 being immediately to the rear of plow 14 and arranged to plow in the bottom of the furrow of the plow 14,.

Arranged at the front end of frame 10. upon the land side of plow 14, is a series of cultivator disks 16 which are mounted upon a rotary shaft 17 journaled in suitable arms 18 pivotally/swung upon a shaft 19 mounted in suitable journals on the frame 10, said shaft 19 lying at less than a right angle to the v.line of draft. Arranged upon the furrow side of the plows, in the line of displacement of said plows, but in balanced relationship to the cultivator disks 16, are similar cultivator disks-21' which are carried by a rotary shaft 22 journaled in the outer ends Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dc, 14,. 1909, i

of arms 23 which are pivotally hung upon a shaft 24 journaled in suitable bearings upon the main frame. The two shafts 19 and 24 are connected by suitable gears 25 with a driving shaft 26 journaled on the main frame. Shaft 19 carries a sprocket wheel 27 which is connected by a sprocket chain 28 with. a sprocket wheel 29 carried by shaft 17. Similarly shaft 24 carries a sprocket wheel 31 which is connected by a sprocket chain 32 with a sprocket wheel 33 carried by shaft 22. Shaft'26 is provided with a sprocket wheel 35 w-hich-isconnected by a sprocket chain 36 with agear 37 carried within countershaft 38 journale'd on the main frame 10 andconnected lby a gear39 and chain 40 with a gear 41y carried by a main drive shaft 42 connected to aj suitable motor (which may be conveniently a gas engine) 43 mounted on the main frame 10. If

desired' the apparatus may be selfpropelled by connecting the two supporting wheels-11 and 12 with the countershaft 38. Wheel 11 is vertically adjustable in guides 43 in order that frame 10 may be properly leveled during' transportation, or during the production of the first and subsequent furrows.

It is necessary, in order that the apparatus may turn corners, and be transported from field to field. that the plows and cultivator disks be vertically movable in order that they may be withdrawn wholly from engagement with the ground and for that purpose any desirable elevating mechanism 44 may be provided. A guide shoe 45 may be provided at the forward end of the machine to run in the furrow and serve as a guide.

The operation is as follows z-The first time around the field the cultivator disks 21 will be held up out of operative position and there will be produced a deep furrow, the result of the combined action of the two 'plows 14 and 15, and on the land side of l' Athe machine'.

the carrying wheel 11 will be in the upper l end of its guides so'as to properly support l As soon as a complete circuit of the eld has been made,wheel 11 will come into the bottom of the furrow, the previously loos*-` ened and somewhat compacted upper surface layer 52 which has been previously operated upon by the disks .16; wheel 11 will thereupon roll upon and compact the two strata 51 and 52, and following this, plow 15 will cut-and turn over on tothese compacted strata an intermediate roughly broken stratum 53.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination, with means for breaking up the surface of the ground, ofA a plow transversely displacing said brokenup surface stratum, means for breaking up the sub-soil in the bottom of a preceding plow 'furrow preceding the delivery therey upon of the broken-up surface stratum, and means for compacting the surface stratum before turning, and means for compacting the two strata after the surface stratum has been turned.

2. The combination, with means for breaking up the surface ofthe ground, of

a plow transversely displacingqand over-` turning said broken-up surface stratum,

.means for breaking up the sub-soil in the' bottom of a vpreceding plow furrow preceding the delivery thereupon of the broken-up and overturned surface stratum, and means for compaeting the surface stratum before turning, and means for compacting the two strata after the surface stratum has been turned.

The" combination', 'with meansl for breaking up the surface of the ground, of a plow transversely displacing said brokenup surface stratum, means for breaking up the sub-soil in the bottom of a preceding plow furrow preceding the delivery thereupon of the broken-up surface stratum, and a second -plow arranged-to deliver an'intermediate stratum upon the preceding strata.

4. The combination, with means for breaking up the surface ofthe ground, of a plow 'transversely displacing and overturning said'broken-up surface stratum, means for breaking up the sub-soil in the bottom of a preceding plow furrow preceding the delivery'thereupon of the broken-up and overturned surface stratum, and a see- .ond plow arranged to deliver an intermediate stratum upon the preceding strata.

5. The combination, with -means for breaking up the surface of the ground, of a plow transversely displacing said broken- `up surface stratum, means for breaking upthe sub-soil inthe bottom of a preceding plow furrow preceding the'delivery thereupon of the broken-up' surface stratum, means for compacting the two strata, and a second plow arranged to deliver an intermediatestratum upon the precedingstrata.

G. The combination, with means for breaking up the surface of the ground, of a plow transversely displacing and overturning said broken-up surface stratum, means for breakin up the sub-soil in the bottom of a precedmg plow furrow preceding the'delivery thereu onof the brokenup and overturned sur ace stratum, meansu for compaeting the two strata, and a second plow arranged to deliver an intermediate stratum upon the preceding Strata.

7. The combination, with a suitable carrying structure, of a plow, a set of cultivator disks arranged in advance of the plow, a second set of cultivator disks arranged upon the furrow side of the plow to break up the sub-soil in the bottom of the furrow preceding delivery thereupon of material from the plow, and means for positively rotatingthe cultivator disks.

8. The'combination, with a suitable carrying structure, of a plow, ay set of cultivator disks arranged in advance of the plow, a second set of cultivator disks arranged upon the furrow side of the plow to break up the sub-soil, in the bottom-of the furrow preceding delivery thereupon of material from the plow, and a second plow arranged to deliver an intermediate stratum upon the stratum delivered by the first plow upon the broken 9. The combination, with a suitable car rymg structure, of a plow, a set of cultivator disks arranged-'1n advance of the plow, a

second set of cultivator disks arranged uponsub-soil in the bottom of the furrow pre.- ceding deliverythereupon of material from the plow, means for positively rotatingthe 'the furrow side of Lthe plow to break up the y cultivator disks, and a second plow arranged to deliver an intermediate stratum upon the stratum delivered by the rst plowupon the broken up sub-soil.

lL'The combination, with a suitable car# rying structure, of a plow, a set of cultivator disks arranged in advance of the plow, a

`secondset of oultivator'disks arranged upon the furrow side of the plow to break up the sub-soil in the bottom of the furrow preceding delivery thereupon of materialfrom the plow, means for positively rotating the eultivator disks, a second plow arranged to 'deliver an 4intermediate stratum upon the stratum delivered by the first plow upon the 15 my hand and seal. at Indianapolis, Indiana, zo

thistwenty-seventh day of April, A. D. one thousand` nine hundred and nine.

- HENRY MOORE. [L s] Witnesses:

ARTHUR M. Hoon,

THOMAS W. MGMEANS.

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